“Say that I was foolish/Say that I was blind/Never say that I got left behind” I saw the nerd apotheosis of Flash animation today: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Batman! Godzilla! Zombie Lincoln! And then it starts to get really good. When I started to spread the word I found out that this actually circulated a couple of months… Read more →
Day: May 8, 2006
I am not making this up
Please go read this Reuters article: Fortune-telling judge couldn’t see it coming. There’s something funny in every paragraph. Actually, you know what, I’m going to do a commentary. Here’s the first paragraph. I challenge you to read it aloud with a straight face: A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs… Read more →
…they all have a way of beginning in Lankhmar.
So, did you see that Dark Horse is planning to reprint the Lanhkmar books? And reprint the old Epic comic adaptations? And that they have the movie license? And that they’re going to do some comic adaptations? You can see how this came about: First, they are having a (surprising) success with the Conan comics, and they are actively searching… Read more →
Recommended Reading: Man Walks Into A Pub
Well, this will be a dramatically different kind of book recommendation from the last one. (Although I guess there is a tenuous sequitor, since Jeff Ford has been known to enjoy a beer.) I also wanted to take a moment to recommend to everyone the book that is currently my downstairs bathroom book: Pete Brown’s Man Walks Into A Pub:… Read more →
